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The list below is believed complete, though membership – like everything here – is subject to revision.

  • Celestial theodolite – A flat-Earth method that measures atmospheric refraction with great care and records it as the absence of curvature.
  • Reuelsee – Bavarian lake (Ǔ ≈ 4.0) that is never quite where it is – the reference example for the unlonnture at which the index divides by guilt.
  • Sceptre Bay fjord – Ordinary fjord (Ǔ ≈ 1.6) in which Unlonn drowned while measuring it.

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